Coming back to edit this review, years later. This show is STILL THE ONE FOR ME. I can listen to this show over and over, back to back and not get sick of it. Brokedown is so sweet, and Me and Bobby Mc Gee is the best ever. No question. Jerry's solo is heartbreaking, and some of Bobby's best vocals ever. Casey Jones, Truckin... solid! Saint Stephen... prime, vintage. Deal... nice and slow, a gem. Sugar Mag/Sunshine will blow you away. And the Lovelight ending with PigPen's rap is perfection. Recording is 5 star absolutely incredible, and Charlie Miller's magic somehow makes it even better!! The stripped down sound is raw and Jerry's playing is so clean and soulful!! But when you really hear it...feel it... and tap into the rawness... it shows that this was the Dead just coming into their prime as a band, and Jerry as a player. THANK YOU CHARLIE MILLER.

I remember I was there, this was my first Dead show, and it was amazing. I recall seeing the guy with the open reel recorder "hidden" under a wheel chair, recording the show. It was a wild night, took my high school girl friend and it was so cool. The Dead really just nailed it that night, especially with Casey Jones, Sugar Magnolia, and Turn On Your Love light. An incredible show to get on the bus with!

I just gotta say the guy rhythmically adding "woo-woo" to Casey Jones should get a songwriting credit. He adds something to the experience lol

One of the best audience recordings ever.
Really good show - not greatest.
Hard To Handle may be the best ever.
The rest is real good! No real stand out versions, but this show has personality! "8-6-71" means something. One of the best from '71.

Does anyone else hear the Clarence White influence in Me and Bobby McGee?? This recording, to me, most accurately captures the Dead live. My favorite period of the Dead is 1970, 1971 both because they were so lyrical and because after the loss of Pigpen, for me they were never quite the same

The sexy rocking man power displayed in this Let Your Lovelight/Shine on Me) is just right for an August afternoon into evening like today. From the heart, soul, and ken of the Grateful Dead tonight at the Hollywood Palladium, sweet imaginin's throughout entire show. This is a fabulous Why I Listen To Live-Recorded Dead After All These Years.

Thank god the taper didn't listen to Bobby and move back 40 feet. This is a wonderful recording of a wonderful show which gives the experience of what it was like to see the dead and score a spot near the stage. A real classic.

Does anyone know??

In 'the Other One' AFTER Me and My Uncle, Bobby plays a few licks of Weather Report. Would this be the first taste?

Thank-you Charlie

((~);})

Not much more to say- Just awesome.

The recording is outstanding as well. I'll pick a perfect aud anyway an this is it. Such great energy in this show. Rivals any night of the Capital Theater a few months ahead.

This is it friends the very best of 71'.its a show beyond description.every tune is just dead on.the energy is amazing.thanks again mr charlie.as always a true artisan to your craft.10 stars.

I usually really don't like '71 shows, but this one is amazing! The set list and playing are peak, and the recording is wonderful for the time. Lots of great renditions, including a brilliant Morning Dew. Monster Lovelight too.

beyond fantastic! esp hard2handle, beyond 5star
vista cruiser on hyperdrive...........5x5x5

Like most of us, I am a spoiled SBD snob. I even used to have this site filter out everything that wasn't a soundboard. Not worth my time.

But Charlie Miller's name on this is good enough for me. It's like Owsley's name on a hit of acid - that's all you've got to know.

This recording of this show is why I will always take a well-recorded audience over a soundboard (even one from a multi-channel mix). It's not that soundboards suck. They don't. And it's not that a recording of this quality is rare for this time period, either, though it is.

Just give it a listen. The music literally jumps out of your speakers in a way that a soundboard, however well-sourced, simply can't. It has a space and depth that is as close to being at a show as you can come. You get all the interactions between the band and the audience that came to define the experience of being at a show. Listen to how the audience responds when the band hits a groove (and there are many here) and the band, in turn, feeds off that love.

Comments below point to the moment, after Bertha, when Bobby tells the taper to move back forty feet so he'll get a "better" recording. Some in the audience sound appreciative. At the time, it was probably a bummer for a taper to be taking up space up front (and why the band eventually began to corral them). But I wonder how many of them, upon hearing this show, now forty-plus years later, would continue to be bummed. In any event, the taper knew what he was about . . . "I'm stayin' right here . . ." Kudos. The fact that Sir Charlie Miller has added his considerable expertise to this recording should seal the deal. He doesn't, by his own statements, devote much energy to audience shows.

There's not much I can add to the comments below about the show itself. High energy, tight, rollicking fun. I love the Cumberland Blues. The Hard to Handle is a MONSTER, regardless if it's the best ever or not. Just after the 5:00 mark, the audience knows they're hearing something special, and at just about the 5:30 mark, the band finds a slightly new groove that makes it truly special. A few seconds to collect themselves and then right into Casey Jones to close the set. Sweet.

The Other One > Me & My Uncle > The Other one is another standout, which they didn't do very often. (My favorite is from 71.11.14 at TCU . . . stunningly amazing . . . but evidently you can't even stream it here anymore because it's been released on Road Trips. Too bad.)

To top it off, a near 20 minute Lovelight to close. Smashing show. Brilliant recording. Get it now.

Peace.

Bob is talking to the people right in front of the stage and the taper we hear is telling those other tapers where to come back to.

this is my favorite show to listen to from 71. The whole set is so tight and they're just so well rehearsed its really an up-beat and fun show.

tell me what group of 20 year-olds is playing such subtly complicated, dynamic, and emotional music these days? ain't nobody

first few notes gave me the chills, amazing stuff!

holy crap.

THE HARD TO HANDLE OF ALL HARD TO HANDLES...DON'T BELIEVE THE FOLKS WHO TELL YOU 4/29/71 IS BETTER, THEY'RE WRONG!

...is a monster here. Even without Mickey, here is some of the most impressive, hard-driving drumming the Dead ever delivered.

When I first heard this Hard To Handle on the Phil Zone cd, I flipped. It whipped me into a total frenzy and I believe the liner notes stated Phil couldn"t remember why the crowd went so crazy. Could it be Jerry dropping to his knees? Anyway, great to have the whole show, thanks!!

This show is smokin! I must concur with previous reviews, the Hard to Handle is dead on.

thanks to all who put this together love the old stuff

That Hard to Handle is a ship driven by the forces of the universe! SICK!

My favorite Hard to Handle. I want to believe Garcia really dropped to his knees! Pig gave the Dead some balls. I was always very happy when he would bring them in from the space.
Another shows Garcia and Friends benefit for the Hells Angels. He stepped up and did a Love Light that could not be beat.
Angel girls passed us some jugs with “juice” and we drank some and.
I will never forget Bobby and Jerry sitting in the front pew of Pigs funeral. It was so real.
“Play you guitar” Man took this Handle to a new height.
K boy

Glad he didn't take Bob's advice. You can hear the taper say "right here" He obviously knew he was in the sweet spot.

I love Bobby after 'Bertha': "Hey you down there with the Microphone. If you want to get a decent recording ya gotta move back about 40 feet."

Priceless.

Check out the review for this show in the Taping Compendium. Why cant all AUD's sound as good as this one. This is a truly great show with one of the ALL time best 'Hard to Handle's. Apparently rumour has it that Jerry dropped to his knees at the climax. Something sure was happening cos the crowd was going wild! But this show has many highlights, including a really rockin 'Mr Charlie' (my two year old daughter's favourite song at the moment), a smokin Cumberland, and of course a second set that rocks. If you want to hear the dead when they were really on, with the crowd upfront and totally involved, get this NOW

Why am I just now hearing this show and how can an Aud sound so good? This will definately keep it's place on my MP3 player for a long time. Brokedown Palace is one of the best I've heard.

FYI: This review is from someone who usually hates AUDs...I only discovered this because there's no SBD...but it doesn't matter! :)

I used to have a bootleg double-LP set of this show (with everything from Casey Jones To Sugar Mag taken out and replaced with the El Paso and Sugaree from the night before, strangely) called "Out West." It was a very quiet, hissy, wrongly-pitched recording, with a huge hunk of the show missing...yet I still loved it, because the performances are so bitchen'!

Now we have this awesome Charlie Miller (redundant phrase, I know) re-master...since this show doesn't have a soundboard to my knowledge, the only way to get it is an AUD, and this version is the one to get- of the 4 AUDs now available!

Every instrument is present, if you play it through decent speakers. The drums are a little tinny and the bass a bit muddy, and the vocals could be louder... but it's still the best AUD I've ever heard, and consider the vintage! It's a 1000% improvement over that old scratchy album...I'm blissed out listening to this with the volume UP...DL it while you can.

At the very start of the 2nd Other One, just one riff.

This is an amazing recording of a classic show.

Mag-nificent!

That's all I got to say folks. We all know about this show and this version here is the best one yet! It is an absolute treat that we can download this baby!

Go!